I've had blog since 2006.
It's called Delay's Blog and - for a time - was among the top most visited blogs on MSDN.
MSDN hosts its blogs on the Telligent platform and has a team of people whose job it is to keep things running.
This is a nice perk and that team makes it easy for Microsoft employees to reach a wide audience.
I had a good run and I appreciate all their efforts!

However, I'm something of a control freak and tinkerer and I've always thought it would be nice to own the whole content pipeline.
So I decided a number of months ago to migrate this blog to my own site instead.
Of course, there are a wealth of good blogging platforms I could have chosen, and lots that are based on the ASP.NET stack I use for the rest of my site.

But I didn't choose any of them - instead, I've written my own blogging platform based on the Node.js stack.
While I'll be the first to acknowledge there's an element of NIH going on [ :) ], there were other considerations:

Node.js presents a good learning opportunity for a .NET guy like myself

My current job is all about HTML/CSS/JavaScript, so Node.js is a great fit

The Node.js community is very active and NPM has a wealth of great packages

Though I like typing posts in HTML, I want to experiment with Markdown

By writing my own blog, I have complete control (evil laugh...)

Development happened in small bits and pieces over many weeks and bus rides; the result is the blog you're reading now.

For convenience, I've migrated all the existing content from MSDN so I can reference it in one place (here!).
For continuity, I've left the posts on MSDN, with comments disabled and a pointer to this site for new content.

As expected, developing my own blogging platform on a new framework was a great learning experience; I had a good time doing it and am happy to finally have complete control over my (blogging) destiny.